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title: The heroes wept, old men and matrons, swaggering youths and timid ma… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The heroes wept, old men and matrons, swaggering youths and timid maidens, half-grown boys and lovely little girls, all wept, for their hearts were melted. Who acts: heroes. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tree and
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 95

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The heroes wept, old men and matrons, swaggering youths and timid maidens, half-grown boys and lovely little girls, all wept, for their hearts were melted.

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**Who acts:** heroes · **What happens:** weep, swagger, grow, melt · **To what, where:** old men, youths, hearts

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:35:95
# text = The heroes wept, old men and matrons, swaggering youths and timid maidens, half-grown boys and lovely little girls, all wept, for their hearts were melted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	matrons	matron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	swaggering	swagger	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	advmod	_	_
26	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | the heroes | old men and matrons |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **swagger** | gerund | the heroes *not said here* | youths and timid maidens and grown boys and lovely little girls |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location youth=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | half *compound* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **weep** | past | the heroes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **melt** | past · passive |  | heroes's hearts |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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